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By *ad Nanna OP Woman 24 weeks ago
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Although I have an excuse as to why I don't do strenuous activities any more, I was put to shame yesterday by my uncle who is in his mid 80s, who told us how he had to use a hedge trimmer on his grass before he mowed it, because it was so high.
I can't even lift my hedge trimmer, let alone cut grass with it  |
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But as you say you have a reason.
My dad is 97 (o know I keep mentioning it  ) and compared to people his age and even ten years younger is very mobile and able. They often feel ashamed that they can't keep up with him but it isn't their fault, he's lucky. |
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By *ad Nanna OP Woman 24 weeks ago
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"But as you say you have a reason.
My dad is 97 (o know I keep mentioning it ) and compared to people his age and even ten years younger is very mobile and able. They often feel ashamed that they can't keep up with him but it isn't their fault, he's lucky. "
I think it's important to keep physically active as we get older and slow down.
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My grandparents were very active in the community and in his 80's my grandad was still helping the "old people", as he called them, get about and to appointments. They were mainly younger than him. |
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"But as you say you have a reason.
My dad is 97 (o know I keep mentioning it ) and compared to people his age and even ten years younger is very mobile and able. They often feel ashamed that they can't keep up with him but it isn't their fault, he's lucky. "
I've not read you mentioning Dad's age before BUT beware you don't mention that he was a toolmaker every time you give an interview. |
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"But as you say you have a reason.
My dad is 97 (o know I keep mentioning it ) and compared to people his age and even ten years younger is very mobile and able. They often feel ashamed that they can't keep up with him but it isn't their fault, he's lucky.
I've not read you mentioning Dad's age before BUT beware you don't mention that he was a toolmaker every time you give an interview."
Might have been a bus driver - seems at least three key leaders in different parties say their dads were bus drivers. |
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"But as you say you have a reason.
My dad is 97 (o know I keep mentioning it ) and compared to people his age and even ten years younger is very mobile and able. They often feel ashamed that they can't keep up with him but it isn't their fault, he's lucky.
I think it's important to keep physically active as we get older and slow down.
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Michael Mosley . ( god rest his soul, crosses chest quickly three times ) says we don't eat enough protein. So he upped his and did push ups and squats every day because we lost 5% of our muscle each year and it's replaced with flab n fat.......
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"But as you say you have a reason.
My dad is 97 (o know I keep mentioning it ) and compared to people his age and even ten years younger is very mobile and able. They often feel ashamed that they can't keep up with him but it isn't their fault, he's lucky.
I've not read you mentioning Dad's age before BUT beware you don't mention that he was a toolmaker every time you give an interview."
Or a pharmacist. For balance.
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"My grandparents were very active in the community and in his 80's my grandad was still helping the "old people", as he called them, get about and to appointments. They were mainly younger than him. "
My gran used to “go down the old peoples home to see how the poor dears are getting on and see if they need any help.” - she was in her 90s and most of them were at least a decade younger than her.
Keeping fit in your old (or _any_age) is soooo important. |
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"But as you say you have a reason.
My dad is 97 (o know I keep mentioning it ) and compared to people his age and even ten years younger is very mobile and able. They often feel ashamed that they can't keep up with him but it isn't their fault, he's lucky.
I've not read you mentioning Dad's age before BUT beware you don't mention that he was a toolmaker every time you give an interview.
Or a pharmacist. For balance.
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Or a doctor ... that's both parents profession given lol |
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"But as you say you have a reason.
My dad is 97 (o know I keep mentioning it ) and compared to people his age and even ten years younger is very mobile and able. They often feel ashamed that they can't keep up with him but it isn't their fault, he's lucky.
I've not read you mentioning Dad's age before BUT beware you don't mention that he was a toolmaker every time you give an interview.
Or a pharmacist. For balance.
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Yes. A poor pharmacist who made his child work in the pharmacy .... such hardship |
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"But as you say you have a reason.
My dad is 97 (o know I keep mentioning it ) and compared to people his age and even ten years younger is very mobile and able. They often feel ashamed that they can't keep up with him but it isn't their fault, he's lucky.
I've not read you mentioning Dad's age before BUT beware you don't mention that he was a toolmaker every time you give an interview.
Or a pharmacist. For balance.
Yes. A poor pharmacist who made his child work in the pharmacy .... such hardship"
Granny, putting all the pills in the little bottles is back-breaking work!
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"My grandparents were very active in the community and in his 80's my grandad was still helping the "old people", as he called them, get about and to appointments. They were mainly younger than him.
My gran used to “go down the old peoples home to see how the poor dears are getting on and see if they need any help.” - she was in her 90s and most of them were at least a decade younger than her.
Keeping fit in your old (or _any_age) is soooo important."
My nan was the same, she looked after the old people in her close, who were at least 10/20 years younger than her |
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"But as you say you have a reason.
My dad is 97 (o know I keep mentioning it ) and compared to people his age and even ten years younger is very mobile and able. They often feel ashamed that they can't keep up with him but it isn't their fault, he's lucky.
I've not read you mentioning Dad's age before BUT beware you don't mention that he was a toolmaker every time you give an interview.
Or a pharmacist. For balance.
Yes. A poor pharmacist who made his child work in the pharmacy .... such hardship
Granny, putting all the pills in the little bottles is back-breaking work!
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They were so poor they didn't have little bottles! They had to put the pills in the toilet roll inners. |
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"My grandparents were very active in the community and in his 80's my grandad was still helping the "old people", as he called them, get about and to appointments. They were mainly younger than him.
My gran used to “go down the old peoples home to see how the poor dears are getting on and see if they need any help.” - she was in her 90s and most of them were at least a decade younger than her.
Keeping fit in your old (or _any_age) is soooo important."
Some of us will not be able to or cannot be "fit" in our old age.
Frankly, the prospect of becoming older terrifies me now. I fear losing my upper body strength (so I try to work out and keep it). I worry that having hypermobility will mean more of me falls to bits to the point where something crucial doesn't work anymore (for reference, legs are not crucial).
I get around it by blocking it out of my mind.
My Dad will be 85 soon. His brain has turned to soup, but his body is very fit, though his gait is wonky and he has balance issues. He can still walk for miles and get on public transport unassisted (hence his recent getting lost on a train to Newcastle!) but he doesn't know what time of day it is.
I am the one in the wheelchair, taking my physically able (but mentally less able) Dad to hospital appointments. I find it hard going.
Basically, we're all different. Sometimes, no matter what you do or how hard you try and stay "fit", you will end up infirm and you just have to deal with it.
Nanna - don't be bothered by all the fit 80-somethings skipping about. There's plenty you do for yourself and others that is really important, more so than cutting the hedge. |
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"But as you say you have a reason.
My dad is 97 (o know I keep mentioning it ) and compared to people his age and even ten years younger is very mobile and able. They often feel ashamed that they can't keep up with him but it isn't their fault, he's lucky.
I've not read you mentioning Dad's age before BUT beware you don't mention that he was a toolmaker every time you give an interview.
Or a pharmacist. For balance.
Yes. A poor pharmacist who made his child work in the pharmacy .... such hardship
Granny, putting all the pills in the little bottles is back-breaking work!
They were so poor they didn't have little bottles! They had to put the pills in the toilet roll inners. "
The heart must break.
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And at 89, my Grandad was more physically able than me, but his heart was on the wonk. COVID was the ultimate killer for him, but yes, having an 89yo Grandad who could outwalk you is a bit embarrassing. |
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"But as you say you have a reason.
My dad is 97 (o know I keep mentioning it ) and compared to people his age and even ten years younger is very mobile and able. They often feel ashamed that they can't keep up with him but it isn't their fault, he's lucky.
I think it's important to keep physically active as we get older and slow down.
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It's very important. I try and am fitter and more mobile than a lot of my contemporaries but I'm a stranger to the gym and I like a bit of cake. |
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"But as you say you have a reason.
My dad is 97 (o know I keep mentioning it ) and compared to people his age and even ten years younger is very mobile and able. They often feel ashamed that they can't keep up with him but it isn't their fault, he's lucky.
I've not read you mentioning Dad's age before BUT beware you don't mention that he was a toolmaker every time you give an interview."
I'll bear that in mind. May I mention his 'struggles'? |
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My Grandad made 99 by getting his exercise in every day by walking to get a newspaper then come home to read it then walk to the betting shop for to place a bet in the afternoon on what he read in the paper |
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By *ad Nanna OP Woman 24 weeks ago
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"But as you say you have a reason.
My dad is 97 (o know I keep mentioning it ) and compared to people his age and even ten years younger is very mobile and able. They often feel ashamed that they can't keep up with him but it isn't their fault, he's lucky.
I think it's important to keep physically active as we get older and slow down.
Michael Mosley . ( god rest his soul, crosses chest quickly three times ) says we don't eat enough protein. So he upped his and did push ups and squats every day because we lost 5% of our muscle each year and it's replaced with flab n fat.......
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That explains why I'm all flab and no muscle.
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